032 - West's so jittery right now...

[major_west]

BOLLOCKS! My legs itch!

So, everybody's back to normal. Oh. Good. Great. Yeah.

Skinny dipping with-- What an awful ordeal that was. At least it's over now, all's well, and we're back to our proper... selves.

[Private to the Marquis]
You're a bloke again, yeah?

Comments

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

...You're dead, you say?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Yes. Very, very dead.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

...I see.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I presume you are, too.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Not to my knowledge.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

If you're an Inmate, then you're dead. It's quite simple.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

I think I might have noticed something like that.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Evidently, you didn't.

Personally, I remember my death vividly. Some of the others don't.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps there's a reason why some of you share this delusion of dying.

Are you in a cult of some sort?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

What? Of course I'm not.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Hm. It must be a mental disorder.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I'm not insane, either, alright? I was killed by an Infected and woke up here. End of story.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

...Have you considered my original theory that we may be infected, and are being held here under quarantine?

Perhaps we are immune?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Infection takes hold of one in under a minute where I'm from.

Besides... I don't-- I didn't get any blood in... I mean, I don't think I did--

Oh, what does it matter? I'm dead. The infection doesn't touch the dead.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

It takes twenty-four hours, so far as I know.

Immunity, however, would mean no reanimation. Typhoid Mary, if you will.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Reanimation?

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Yes. Reanimation, once the body has ceased to function in the twenty-third hour.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

There was no reanimation during Infection.

...at least, not with the strain I encountered.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Lucky, lucky you.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Wasn't lucky at all. Everybody died in the end, all the same.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

You ought to thank your God that they didn't come back.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I have no reason to thank any god. If they came back, it just meant we would've died faster. Same result.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

I imagine that your particular strain was much easier to kill off.

Headshots, my young friend, are not so easy as Hollywood would have you believe.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Yes. If we'd waited for the Infected to starve to death like I'd intended, things would have worked out.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

How reassuring to know they would have eventually died of starvation.

Our strain slowly succumbed to the ravages of time, festering until the brain rotted and ceased to function.

Years and years.